Ahhh... just the woman I was hoping would be in this thread. I've been thinking, Connie. And please tell me if I'm being overly harsh. So all these women are coming out of the wood work telling us how they were sexually abused. I was just reading an article in which Corey Feldman revealed he was molested by someone in the industry when he was nine years old.
But for now, let's remove any minors from the equation. Now let's be clear: anyone who sexually assaults or abuses another person should be held accountable. That said, I'm starting to wonder why so many of these people essentially sold their souls for fame and now want to speak up decades later after they've cashed in on the abuse that likely earned them their fame and fortune. I think better late than never, and I'm glad so many people are coming forward. I know I'm supposed to cheer and wave pom poms, celebrating all these "brave" people coming forward. "Brave" would have been speaking up at the time.
I think the difference is this: leftists think women are inferior. They're toys for Hollywood perverts. They're incapable of reporting sexual assault. They can't manage their own reproductive organs without government intervention.
Normal Americans, on the other hand, have faith in women and we believe they are equal. Sexual assault should be reported immediately. If you choose not to do so for fame and fortune, then that is your decision.
So I guess I am a bit torn. I hope the dam continues to burst. I hope these savages get penalized in any legal way possible. I also hope women (and men, let's not forget what's-his-name Van Der Beek got ass-grabbed) understand that if you don't report abuse, you're helping facilitate others being abused.
The women as "victim" mentality freaking is an insult to feminism and those of us who are true feminists. You know.. women who believe that women have talents, strengths and weaknesses that men do.
Men are also victims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Its not a 'woman's thing". Anyone who is physically weaker, or otherwise incapacitated can be a victim.
What pisses me off about this nonesense though is to act like to trade sex for a benefit - hasn't been around since the dawn of human kind. But, you know what does NOT change that dynamic.. whining as if it is only a woman thing. As if women are victims. And as IF some people did not knowingly and purposely use their own sex appeal - for the purpose of getting ahead and getting what they want.
You know what DOES change it and what DOES help to eliminate it - a belief in the sanctity and beauty of the act. A belief in self respect. Yours and the respect of others. When you value sex and the imenseness of what is shared, and you value yourself, and you respect others - you do not seek to cheapen yourself, or anyone else by trading something so special. But, when you do not, and others do not, when sex is merely a transaction a physical release, then why not? You are not crushing a person's soul by forcing yourself on them.. its just physical.. a phyiscal release. THAT is what you think when you have no respect for yourself, others and the act itself.
The only reason we are not hearing more about the men sexually harassed is because they are either disgusted that they were the recipient of homosexual advances AND because there are fewer women in positions of that kind of power. But, make no mistake, when women weild that power - without respect for themselves and others PLENTY engage in sexual harassment as well.
Now, people are allegding actual rape. THAT is a whole other ball of wax. But, to that end, I think too that if you don't report it when it happens, then I have not only great suspicions about whether or not you actually felt FORCED and more reluctantly consented. There is a difference between consenting too when fear of threat of violence and just because you think you won't get a part. Most of the stories that I have heard have centered around women who tolerated his advances to promote their own careers, OR those who walked away. I have no patience for anyone's buyers remorse because they reluctantly consented to sex with that pig in hopes that it would help their career. Sorry, but that isn't rape or assault. That was a choice, own it.
Like you said, though, I am enjoying watching them canibalize each other. And, in the end, this will all blow over and people will go right back to what they were doing... knowingly trying to trade on their sex appeal to get ahead, and propositioning people in hopes they are willing to do so.
